These are the eggs Maya, her cousin Eve and I dyed yesterday afternoon--they're pretty cool, aren't they? It's actually a lot easier than it looks--the dye comes in liquid packets with some sort of oil in them that stays separate from the dye, so when you dip the hardboiled eggs in with a spoon or a dipper and swirl them around in a circular pattern for a second or two, they get coated or dappled in the pattern you see. Then you dry them off with a paper towel and dip them in a contrasting color, and so on, until you have the effect you want. Easy, peasy, japanezy! And here are Eve and Maya, hard at work in the kitchen:
